[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

The thing that saves the most lives is counter intelligence and the information that, presumably, could have been gotten from Bin Laden - a supposed head of the snake - would have been worth infinitely more than one dead terrorist.

That's somewhere we'll always differ thoufacing gh Kirk. I'd rather live and die hearing the truth than be safer in ignorance.

I do not hold with being ignorant T.S. - not in any way. I absorb as much knowledge as I can, about all subjects.

However, I was not the ones with Bin Laden that night in a terrorist-friendly country, faced with potentially overwhelming odds and the job of capturing the world's No. 1 Murdering Terrorist at the time.

I do not know - no more than you or anyone else does - exactly what happened that night.

Perhaps Bin Laden went for a gun. Perhaps he went to scratch his dick. I don't know and I do not care.

I PRESUME that the US Military who were there WOULD have taken him alive IF they had the choice, but with spilt second decisions to make, if the ONLY resort was to kill him then I'm happy to leave it at that.

If someone could hold up Jihadi John's dead body somewhere in the world, I would not care either if they had shot him with a whaling harpoon gun while was sitting on the toilet or in the back while was running away.

Personally, I hope that if the day comes when Jihadi John gets his, that he is shot straight between the eyes while he is knelt, unharmed, and begging for his miserable life.

But, hey ho - that's me.

[user104658]

Originally Posted by kirklancaster

I do not hold with being ignorant T.S. - not in any way. I absorbe as much knowledge as I can, about all subjects.

However, I was not the ones with Bin Laden that night in a terrorist-friendly country, faced with potentially overwhelming odds and the job of capturing the world's No. 1 Murdering Terrorist at the time.

I do not know - no more than you or anyone else does - exactly what happened that night.

Perhaps Bin Laden went for a gun. Perhaps he went to scratch his dick. I don't know and I do not care.

I PRESUME that the US Military who were there WOULD have taken him alive IF they had the choice, but with spilt second decisions to make, if the ONLY resort was to kill him then I'm happy to leave it at that.

If someone could hold up Jihadi John's dead body somewhere in the world, I would not care either if they had shot him with a whaling harpoon gun while was sitting on the toilet or in the back while was running away.

Personally, I hope that if the day comes when Jihadi John gets his, that he is shot straight between the eyes while he is knelt, unharmed, and begging for his miserable life.

But, hey ho - that's me.

And the reasoning for dumping the body? You're happy to buy into that, too? I don't know exactly what happened there that night either, obviously, but the only reason I can think of for the swift and secretive disposal of the body is that they don't want anyone to know how it went down. That bothers me. You're happy to accept it at face value "for the greater good". That's fine, but in my opinion, it's willful ignorance.

As for how I know that it's not all what it seems to be at face value? That one's easy. Simply nothing EVER is. Never. Not in interactions between individuals, not in politics, and certainly not in war.

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

And the reasoning for dumping the body? You're happy to buy into that, too? I don't know exactly what happened there that night either, obviously, but the only reason I can think of for the swift and secretive disposal of the body is that they don't want anyone to know how it went down. That bothers me. You're happy to accept it at face value "for the greater good". That's fine, but in my opinion, it's willful ignorance.

As for how I know that it's not all what it seems to be at face value? That one's easy. Simply nothing EVER is. Never. Not in interactions between individuals, not in politics, and certainly not in war.

Yep - I agree with you, so with so many other 'lies' and 'mysteries' to try to fathom, why the war dance over a piece of scum killer like Bin Laden?

I have my own mystery concerning this:

Our local council use to empty my bins EVERY week - now, despite ever greater increases in Council Tax, they only empty them every 4 weeks - and that leaves my Bin not only Laden, but over laden. It's a mystery.